4:33 AM ET Manchester City will play in the Champions League next season. Getty Manchester City have won their appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) over alleged financial fair play (FFP) violations and are free to play in the Champions League next season, it was announced on Monday. City were originally banned from
11:53 PM ET Malika Andrews Close ESPN Staff Writer Staff Writer Joined ESPN in 2018 Appears regularly on ESPN Chicago 1000 Dave McMenamin Close ESPN Staff Writer Lakers and NBA reporter for ESPN. Covered the Lakers and NBA for ESPNLosAngeles.com from 2009-14, the Cavaliers from 2014-18 for ESPN.com and the NBA for NBA.com from 2005-09.
7:23 PM ET Mark Schlabach Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of Georgia Heather Dinich Close ESPN Senior Writer College football reporter Joined ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of Indiana University A day after the Big Ten announced it would play a conference-only
1:54 AM BST The first half of Super Rugby Aotearoa is in the books after Round 5 was completed over the weekend. There were wins for the Crusaders and Hurricanes, with Saturday night’s match in Christchurch certainly delivering on its pre-match hype. Catch up with some of the key talking points from the weekend’s action
11:01 PM ET The Washington Redskins will officially announce Monday morning that they will be changing their nickname, though no new name will be revealed just yet, a source confirmed Sunday night. It had been widely expected that Washington would change its name and one source said Saturday night that an announcement of a new
11:05 AM IST ESPNcricinfo staff On the eve of the one-year anniversary of last year’s extraordinary World Cup final, New Zealand coach Gary Stead has admitted there remains a “numb” feeling about the result which saw England win on boundary countback. The match was tied across the initial 50 overs after Ben Stokes could only
7:24 PM ET ESPN News Services Toronto Blue Jays infielder Travis Shaw apologized for recent tweets that criticized his team’s plan to have players stick to the Rogers Centre and connecting hotel if games are played in Canada. On Friday, he tweeted: “All summer isn’t gonna happen. Not an option.” During a video conference call
8:13 PM ET Nick DePaulaESPN When the NBA season resumes later this month in Orlando, one key element of the game night experience for both players and fans will be missing — the arena entry tunnel walk and spotlight on player’s fashion. A new entry protocol finalized at the end of this past week calls
7:23 PM ET Associated Press STATELINE, Nev. — U.S. Davis Cup captain Mardy Fish won the American Century Championship on Sunday, holding off former Buffalo defensive tackle Kyle Williams a day after a record-setting round. The 38-year-old former tennis player jumped into Lake Tahoe in celebration. “I’ve wanted to play well here for a long
6:33 PM ET Associated Press SPARTA, Ky. — Cole Custer became the first rookie winner in the NASCAR Cup Series in nearly four years, surging to the lead in a four-wide, final-lap scramble Sunday at Kentucky Speedway. Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr. were dueling side by side for the lead on the final restart
3:41 PM ET The National Junior College Athletic Association is expected to approve a proposal that would move its football season to the spring, according to Dr. Christopher Parker, the NJCAA president and CEO. The decision, first reported by The Athletic, will affect 54 football-playing members of its association, which is made up of 512
3:41 PM ET William Saliba is going to have to be Bobby Moore from the get-go to fix Arsenal next season. The Gunners have at least sought to address their defensive issues by spending £27 million to sign the 19-year-old from Saint-Etienne, but in their 2-1 defeat to Tottenham there was yet more evidence of
5:23 PM ET NHL players will hear fans chanting “We Want The Cup!” during their postseason tournament — just not in person. The league’s teams began emailing season-ticket holders over the weekend, asking them to record 30-second clips of cheering on their players. The clips will be used during games played in empty arenas inside
4:34 PM ET Associated Press WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, W.Va. — Tennys Sandgren celebrated a game-clinching point in pandemic-appropriate fashion, retrieving the ball himself in the absence of ball kids, and exchanging an awkward fist-to-elbow bump with a teammate as the World TeamTennis season started before mask-wearing fans on Sunday. WTT’s nine teams have come together
3:40 PM ET Associated Press DUBLIN, Ohio — Collin Morikawa never looked like a winner at the Workday Charity Open until he tapped in for par on the third playoff hole, capping off a wild finish Sunday at Muirfield Village. Morikawa trailed Justin Thomas by 3 shots with three holes to play and managed to
5:16 PM ET Arizona Cardinals owner Michael Bidwill has been released from a Rhode Island hospital after testing positive for the coronavirus last week. “This week I learned first-hand just how serious COVID-19 is,” Bidwill said in a statement. “My immense appreciation for all those on the front lines of this pandemic has only increased
3:58 PM ET Associated Press DEL MAR, Calif. — A 3-year-old filly was euthanized after completing a workout at Del Mar, the track’s first fatality of its summer racing season. Lovely Lilia had just completed a four-furlong workout in 49.20 seconds during training hours Saturday when she was pulled up and vanned off the track.
1:45 PM ET There is a beachhead of hope and a mountain of uncertainty among teams these days as they attempt to play baseball amid the surge of coronavirus infections around the country. After the sport’s first waves of testing results, just about everybody in the game has no more than one degree of separation